I’m working on a few actual posts, where I actually write something and you might actually read it. Until those materialize, please enjoy these fine examples of interspecies love. First, the incredible story of Mr. G. and Jellybean. Read more about it here. Bring a tissue. Next, friendship is not
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wmtc: what i’m reading: what’s a dog for by john homans
John Homans’ What’s a Dog For? The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man’s Best Friend is my kind of dog book. I don’t care for memoirs of heartwarming doggie hijinks or heartbreaking rescue odysseys. I’ve lived those stories myself, and books of that sort don’t advance my knowledge
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Sunny with a chance of squirrels
What is going on in that furry little head of yours? I was standing on the porch one day last fall watching Bella, our terrier-cross dog, and latest addition to the Chadwick pack. She was watching Diego, our ginger tom cat who was watching something in the trees. Bella stared,
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
There’s so much about animals we don’t understand. Check out this story of Max the wonder dog who saved his mistress’s life with his sense of smell.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Snacking Cake Revenge
Muffy and Cuddles were pretty sure they had the math right, but they had a lingering worry that the explosion might ignite the Earth’s atmosphere. On the other hand, the cat was certainly never going to bother them again. No … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Westward Ho!
Every year Jackanape’s Traveling Carnival made the arduous journey to Kamloops. The freaks preferred the train, but if none were available, a dog-cart was always an acceptable conveyance. Especially when piloted by canines with a sense style (and their own … Continue reading →
Continue readingwmtc: when it rains, it pours, or, welcome to my roller coaster
Tala is not doing well. You may recall, she has a chronic and degenerative spine condition. After a long rest and rehab process, she has been doing wonderfully – truly better than I ever expected. But this week she took a downturn. She was suddenly not able to sit. She
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: The Terrier Trials
Dogs. I love dogs. I’d have a dozen of them, if I could. But dogs are as different in personality as we are. Not all dogs are a good fit with other dogs, or even with people. Or with cats. And I love cats as much, if not more, than
Continue readingwmtc: interspecies love, pup and guinea pig edition
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Continue readingwmtc: cantabria to gernika and bilbao, part 1
I almost forgot to mention, we had some interesting news from home. Everything is fine now, but Essie had her hands full for a while! I warned Essie about the danger of skunks in our backyard after dark: absolutely never, ever let the dogs run out into the backyard after
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading, children’s books edition: # 7: two by roddy doyle
Roddy Doyle is one of my favourite authors. I read everything he publishes for adults, but I had never read any of his children’s books before. I recently read two of them, and I’m so glad I did. Wilderness, Roddy Doyle, 2007 In this story, a mother and her two
Continue readingTrashy's World: I think I’ve asked dawg peeps this before…
… but again, why do some of you do this? and this: These dawg peeps went to the trouble of picking up the poop, bagging it, and then they just leave it behind? I don’t get it. Can someone explain? (29) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingwmtc: what could baseball, sexual abuse, and pitbulls possibly have in common?
It’s Opening Day! It’s always a long, cold winter for a baseball-only fan, but winters for Red Sox fans have been especially long and cold lately. When was the last time we saw a meaningful game? (Don’t answer that.) I lost interest ’round about July last season, unusual for me,
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Continue readingwmtc: more canadian pet-supply chains sign the no-puppy-mill pledge
HSI Canada has announced a major step forward in the fight against puppy mills. PJ’s Pets and Pets Unlimited, two sizable retail chains of pet-supply stores, will no longer sell puppies. This is a direct result of public education and small-scale, person-to-person activism. It should give us all hope that
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading, children’s books edition: # 5
In this post, I look at two nonfiction books for young readers. Both are featured in the current “Forest of Reading” program, a province-wide recreational reading program sponsored by the Ontario Library Association. Both fiction and nonfiction winners of the various Forest of Reading awards – Silver Birch, Red Maple,
Continue readingwmtc: happy howlidays!
Love and happy holidays from all of us at chez wmtc. In 2013, raise your voice! Howl for peace, howl for justice. Howl for change.
Continue readingwmtc: our first video: backyard play
Finally, a video of Tala and Diego! How silly am I? Now that we have video capability, I felt sad that we don’t have video of all our past dogs, the ones who are gone. And because of this, I didn’t want to take videos of these dogs! Very silly.
Continue readingwmtc: a good-news, bad-news update: buddha, the brockways, and iraq war resisters in canada
Last month, I took a little road trip with a few friends from the War Resisters Support Campaign, to welcome a new baby and meet a new dog. This nice little visit would be unremarkable – if it weren’t completely incredible. We visited the Brockway…
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